The division, under the direction of any federally mandated
board, commission or council appointed by the secretary of the
department of education and the arts, is authorized and directed to
cooperate with the federal government in providing vocational
evaluation and work adjustment services to disadvantaged
individuals.

"Vocational evaluation and work adjustment services" include,
as appropriate in each case, such services as:

(a) A preliminary diagnostic study to determine that the
individual is disadvantaged, has an employment handicap, and that
services are needed;

(b) A thorough diagnostic study consisting of a comprehensive
evaluation of pertinent medical, psychological, vocational,
educational, cultural, social, and environmental factors which bear
on the individual's handicap to employment and rehabilitation
potential including, to the degree needed, an evaluation of the
individual's personality, intelligence level, educational
achievements, work experience, vocational aptitudes and interests,
personal and social adjustments, employment opportunities, and
other pertinent data helpful in determining the nature and scope of
services needed;

(c) Services to appraise the individual's patterns of work
behavior and ability to acquire occupational skills, and to develop
work attitudes, work habits, work tolerance, and social and
behavior patterns suitable for successful job performance, including the utilization of work, simulated or real, to assess and
develop the individual's capacities to perform adequately in a work
environment;

(d) Any other goods or services provided to a disadvantaged
individual, determined (in accordance with regulations of the
federal government) to be necessary for, and which are provided for
the purpose of, ascertaining the nature of the handicap to
employment and whether it may reasonably be expected the individual
can benefit from vocational rehabilitation services or other
services available to disadvantaged individuals;

(e) Outreach, referral, and advocacy; and

(f) The administration of these evaluation and work adjustment
services.

As used in this section, the term "disadvantaged individuals"
means: (1) Disabled individuals as defined in subdivision (5),
section one of this article; (2) individuals disadvantaged by
reason of their youth or advanced age, low educational attainments,
ethnic or cultural factors, prison or delinquency records, or other
conditions which constitute a barrier to employment; and (3) other
members of their families when the provision of vocational
rehabilitation services to family members is necessary for the
rehabilitation of the individual described in subdivision (1) or
(2) above.

Note: WV Code updated with legislation passed through the 2015 Regular Session
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